Gavin Turk to create “tongue-in-cheek” artwork for Skip Gallery collaboration

Skip Gallery has announced its latest collaboration will be with YBA artist Gavin Turk, who is set to create a “tongue-in-cheek” piece that will apparently have “viewers hungry for more”.

Titled Transubstantiation, the piece will provide a “humorous commentary on consumerism” and will launch in Hoxton Square on Thursday 16 November.

The artist has become known for his subversive sculptural works that often question artistic identity and authorship, and this latest piece will explore “the very nature of a skip as a place to dispose of rubbish, and our relationship to what we choose to throw away”.

For the installation, Skip Gallery will return to its inaugural space in the car parking space opposite 19 Hoxton Square. It’s a fitting location for the artist who exhibited The Golden Thread – a series of casts of black refuse bags – in the now closed down White Cube Hoxton Square over a decade ago.

Previously, the gallery has collaborated with David Shrigley, who exhibited Look at This back in June, which the artist talks about here.

Transubstantiation will be run from 16 – 26 November at Skip Gallery.